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> For the past decade the market for EV was just not there. Then please explain to me why Tesla, during the past decade being one of the few BEV manufacturers
by oxplot 5y ago
> For the past decade the market for EV was just not there.
Then please explain to me why Tesla, during the past decade being one of the few BEV manufacturers has always been limited by production only, despite never ever advertising in its entire history?
> Tesla accounts for less than 25% of the EV sold this year, which is a clear indication that the amount of EV sold wasn't limited by Tesla's production abilities.
You're clueless. Try buying a Tesla right now, or for the past year. Go ahead. Try putting an order in and see when you it gets delivered to you and tell me if that's because they love their cars so much, they don't want to part ways with them or it's because they can't keep up with demand.
> Have you ever driven a German car?
I have driven more cars than I care to count. Ask me how Tesla is better than all of them in all the ways that matters.
> The Tesla is a typical American car, less comfortable and less reliable than it should be for the price tag.
And yet the demand for it so high, you have to wait a year to get one. Looks like comfort isn't the only thing that sells cars.
> No wonder why Germans and Japanese took over the US market for ICE cars years ago.
Sun never set on British empire once too. So what?
> Tesla has the first mover advantage.
What, like Apple did with iPhone?
> status symbol (“like Apple but for cars”).
Ye, whatever you say.
- littlestymaar 5y ago> Then please explain to me why Tesla, during the past decade being one of the few BEV manufacturers has always been limited by production only For this part I'll just borrow a quote from you: > You don't seem to be familiar with how long it takes to ramp up production of a 10000+ component product, based on a ground up design in just about every aspect. Tesla has been severely limited by their ability to industrialize the way they wanted, but you're still completely off-topic: nobody has “flooded the market” with electric car in the meantime, because the market barely existed during that period. Now the market is here, and everybody benefits it (and Tesla is just taking a share of that market). > despite never ever advertising in its entire history? Regular advertising with TV ads and so on, right. But they have been running a multi-billion influencer marketing with Elon doing random stuff (building a tiny submarine to help children stuck in caves, pumping and dumping bitcoin, then memecoins, etc.) How can you say they never ran adverting when we're talking about the company that sent a car TO SPACE!? Come on. > You're clueless.[…] No, but you should try reading what I write maybe. > Ask me how Tesla is better than all of them in all the ways that matter That's pretty typical of a cult. I've never had a single car that “was better than every other before in all aspects” (even when going from Volkswagen to Mercedes) just because it's not how it works. > And yet the demand for it so high, you have to wait a year to get one. Looks like comfort isn't the only thing that sells cars. Yes, the status symbol is a enormous part of why people buy luxury car. But keep thinking it doesn't exist and Tesla is just making the best car ever and just cry about injustice when all durability reviews complain that Tesla produces brittle cars. > What, like Apple did with iPhone? Yes, also like BlackBerry and Yahoo!